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mbrock on Feb 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A complete rewrite of wiki as a single page applic...

He doesn't mean that each server uses a distributed database to store its documents.

The wiki is federated, much like Usenet is through the network of NNTP servers. For more info, see Cunningham's documents "On Federating Wiki" [0] and "Federation Details" [1].

This is distributed in the sense that Git is a distributed source control system.

[0]: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/wi...

[1]: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/wi...

shoover on Feb 2, 2015 | [–]

That said, there are also options to use databases for page storage on the back end: https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki-node.

NolMan on Feb 2, 2015 | [–]

Cool, thanks!

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